With life online becoming more repetitive as the days pass, I feel like we need a fresh change in our lives. Trying out and learning new things is one of the best ways to revitalize our daily life. Here are five new things you can learn this spring: 1. Learning a new instrument Learning an…
All of our lives have been impacted by COVID-19. Whether it was not being able to socialize with our friends and family, or having to wear masks everywhere we go, this virus has had a negative influence on practically all of us! Fortunately, due to the time spent by thousands of scientists worldwide, many companies…
Even before the invention of driverless cars or robots capable of human interaction, movies and books exploded with science fiction worlds. From H. G. Well’s 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea to Marvel’s superheroes, and even Disney’s Wall-E, there have been countless imaginations of mad-genius science concepts. They once seemed only possible in books and…
Not self-driving cars. No flying vehicles, either. I’m talking purely about electric cars. Conventional hybrids, plug-ins, battery electric vehicles – you name it. Many of us are starting to drive, and as the people who will run the roads of the future, it is important to consider what that future will likely look like.…
The global rollout of the vaccines for COVID-19 has been the subject of much contention all over the world. There’s a lot of information coming out at once, and with so many stakeholders it can be hard to keep up. Here’s a brief rundown of each of the currently Canadian-approved COVID-19 vaccines as well as…
Having written so many creative writing pieces on YAA, I only feel it is appropriate that this month’s blog highlights a few of my personal favourite tips. Now, you may be wondering why I am such a creative writing advocate… Well, it’s because I feel that creative writing allows writers to explore uncomfortable places in…
I was racing with the wind down the damp, grassy hill with bare feet. Friends followed behind me desperately, trying to catch their breath. Our hair flew behind us carelessly through the summer breeze. I felt like a dandelion flying through a white orchid field. The new ideas of fun entered our brains like lightbulbs.…
Over this past year, the pandemic has affected all of our lives greatly. While it did bring about some negative consequences, there is also a brighter outlook to this challenging year. For one, we have been given an abundance of time that is valuable in this fast-paced world. In my experience, I found that I…
As Canada enters yet another wave of the pandemic, most provincial governments have reacted with a wide range of measures. Unfortunately, Alberta is the exception here. Instead of enacting strict measures, officials told citizens to “just behave, and everything will be fine”. Other than going back to Step 1 of the transition plan and implementing…
Around ⅓ of all food for human consumption is wasted yearly. This means that about 1.3 billion tones of food are wasted each year. To put these numbers into context, this amount of food could feed about 3 billion people every year and about 2 billion people on the planet struggle to eat safely.…
Draw a path from B.C. to Saskatchewan using a map of Alberta. Learn about BCE and CE before learning how to read a clock. Admire Jason Kenney’s grandpa as the most influential jazz musician in all of Canada-these are some of the most glaring problems that educators found in the Alberta government’s draft K-6 curriculum. But this…
A little tavern off the side of the main street might prove inconspicuous And that’s true with the low grumblings at the tired hour of mid day Soft layers of light filter through the half closed blinds Onto a table held in a stagnant game of cards You’d think the players were caught…
Sometimes I could swear that my cat is a human trapped in an animal’s body. She loves to cause mischief; she drinks water nearly exclusively out of (explicitly human) glasses that we accidentally leave lying around. And when she knows she’s in trouble, she looks at me with those glassy feline eyes and I find…
Dear Lover, Some people say that the universe creates things in perfect synchrony, the same reason many people believe in religion, what is the possibility that I fell for and met the perfect person for me. What are the odds they actually exist? Everything in the world sits like a huge puzzle, just yearning to…
Hey y’all, first of all, I hope you had a restful and well-deserved spring break. Today I’ll be sharing a wonder I discovered through school quite a few years ago. Well, what is it? The website, “Free Rice” is an initiative led by the United Nations’ World Food Programme; they aim to support calls for…